deny. Tnat all were intended to convey deep spiritual lessons, beside supplying proofs of His divinity, I make no question. All I maintain is that they require reverent and delicate Landling, and that to rush hastily into allegorical interpretations of them, and invest every minute portion of them with a figurative mean- ing, is an unwise mode of handling Scripture, and eminently calculated to bring the Bible into contempt.
Hardly any commentator has drawn more useful practical lessons Irom this miracle than Melancthon. Those who think lightly of Protestant divinity would do well to compare his com- mentary on the whole passage with that of Augustine.
JOHN n. 12—25,
12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples : and they continued there not many days.
13 And the Jews' Passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Je- rusalem.
14 And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting :
15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen: and poured out the changers' money, and over- threw the tables ;
1 6 And said unto them that sold doves. Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
11 And his disciples remembered that it was written. The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up.
18 Then answered the Jews and iaid :mtc him, "What sign shewest thoi. unto us, seeing that thou do- est these things ? I
The second miracle which our Lord is recorded to have wrought demands our attention in these verses. Like the fii'st miracle at Cana, it is eminently typical and significant
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remem- bered that he had said this unto them ; and they believed the Scrip- ture, and the word which Jesus had said.
23 Now when he was in Jerusa- lem, at the Passover, in the feast day, many believed in his name, when they saw the miracles which he did.
24 But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
25 And needed not that any should testify of man : for he knev? what was in man.